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Originally Posted by Rizla
Same point again really. The first book required a lot of development to make it good. The fact she wrote more books after I don't see as relevant.
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The subsequent books weren't just add ons, the series describes a much larger story arc that was planned from the outset. To my tastes the first Harry Potter book wasn't anything particularly special. If that's all there had been it would have been an amusing book for young readers and not much more. It is the larger story and subsequent books that turn this collection into something special.
Which, again, begs the question of my earlier post: How do you measure how long books take to write? If you include the planning that went into the larger story arc before the first book was finished, and then all the ongoing touch-up and adjustments to the larger story that must have happened as the subsequent books were written, then the last Harry Potter book took by far the longest to write.